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Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846-1906.

Publication: California History
Publication Date: 01-SEP-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846-1906.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
MAKING SAN FRANCISCO AMERICAN: CULTURAL FRONTIERS IN THE URBAN WEST, 1846-1906

By Barbara Berglund (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007, 304 pp., illus., $34.95 cloth)

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IN THIS AMBITIOUS RE-EXAMINATION of the first sixty years of San Francisco's development from a disorderly, multiracial, Gold-Rush harbor into an American city, Barbara Berglund, a professor of urban and women's studies at the University of South Florida, sets out to avoid the stereotypes of standard history by focusing on half a dozen areas of social...

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